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| Military Helmet Design Contributes To Brain Damage
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| from the minor-oversights dept.
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| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 31, @16:05 (The Military)
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https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/31/188228/Military-Helmet-Design-Contributes-To-Br|
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[0]BuzzSkyline writes "Improvements in helmets have helped modern
soldiers survive bullets and blasts that would have killed them in past
wars. But increasing numbers of soldiers are suffering long lasting brain
damage from explosions, partly as a result of what appears to be a
[1]flaw in helmet designs. Although the blast itself may not accelerate
the brain inside a soldier's head enough to cause injury, shockwaves that
make it through the space between a helmet and a soldier's head can cause
the skull to flex, leading to ripples in the skull that can create
damaging pressures in the brain. Simulations that relied on 'code
originally designed to simulate how a detonated weapon rattles a building
or tank' could lead to new helmets that reduce the traumatic brain
injuries that many soldiers suffer as a result of improvised explosive
devices and other moderate-sized blasts. The research is due to be
published in Physical Review Letters, but a [2]pre-print of the entire
article is currently available on the Physics ArXiv."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/31/188228
Links:
0. mailto:[email protected]
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http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=6862223523768708113
2. http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3468
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